Ten Things to do with a Pencil – – if you’re ADHD - Behavioural Management Systems

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Parenting is the most important job you will ever do.

It can also be the most difficult!

Ten Things to do with a Pencil – – if you’re ADHD

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Parenting is the most important job you will ever do.

It can also be the most difficult!

Many clinicians find it easier to tell parents their child has a brain-based disorder than suggest parenting changes. Jennifer Harris (psychiatrist)

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. (Peggy O'Mara)

Children mimic well. They catch what they see better than they follow what they hear.

Children fare better when expectations on them are clear and firm.

If you (parents) tend to overreact to your child's misbehaviour - your child learns that he can't trust you. Mom, Dad, stay regulated!

Removing a child from a traumatic environment does not remove the trauma from the child's memory.

"To be a man, a boy must see a man." (J.R. Moehringer)

The quickest way to change your child’s behaviour is to first change your own.

Hurt people hurt people.

The challenge of adolescence is to balance the right of the parents to feel they are in charge with the need of the adolescent to gain independence.